Recent Publications:

• Cooperation under the Shadow of the Future: experimental evidence from infinitely repeated games, American Economic Review, December 2005. (data and code)
  
• Plata o Plomo?: Bribes and Punishment in a Theory of Political Influence with Ernesto Dal Bó and Rafael Di Tella, American Political Science Review, February 2006.
  
• Social Norms, Cooperation and Inequality, Economic Theory, January 2007.
  
• Tacit Collusion under Interest Rate Fluctuations, RAND Journal of Economics, Summer 2007.
  
• Reputation When Threats and Transfers Are Available with Ernesto Dal Bó and Rafael Di Tella, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Fall 2007.
• Political Dynasties with Ernesto Dal Bó and Jason Snyder, Review of Economic Studies, January 2009. (data and code)
• Love, Hate and Murder: Commitment Devices in Violent Relationships with Anna Aizer, Journal of Public Economics, April 2009.
• Institutions and Behavior: Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Democracy with Andrew Foster and Louis Putterman, American Economic Review, December 2010. (online appendix) (data and code)
• The Evolution of Cooperation in Infinitely Repeated Games: Experimental Evidence with Guillaume Fréchette, American Economic Review, February 2011. (online appendix) (data and code)
• Workers, Warriors and Criminals: Social Conflict in General Equilibrium with Ernesto Dal Bó, Journal of the European Economic Association, August 2011.
• “Do the Right Thing:” The Effects of Moral Suasion on Cooperation with Ernesto Dal Bó, Journal of Public Economics, September 2014.
• On the Determinants of Cooperation in Infinitely Repeated Games: A survey with Guillaume Fréchette, Journal of Economic Literature, March 2018.
• The Demand for Bad Policy when Voters Underappreciate Equilibrium Effects with Ernesto Dal Bó and Erik Eyster. Review of Economic Studies, April 2018 (Online Appendix)
• Strategy Choice In The Infinitely Repeated Prisoners Dilemma with Guillaume Fréchette, American Economic Review, November 2019.

Chapters:

• Conflict and Policy in General Equilibrium: Insights from a Standard Trade Model with Ernesto Dal Bó, The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Peace and Conflict, 2012.
• Experimental Evidence on the Workings of Democratic Institutions, in Economic Institutions, Rights, Growth, and Sustainability: the Legacy of Douglass North, Cambridge University Press 2014.

Working Papers:

• In The Evolutionary Robustness of Forgiveness and Cooperation with Enrique Pujals, we study the evolutionary robustness of strategies in infinitely repeated prisoners' dilemma games in which players make mistakes with a small probability and are patient. We show that there are strategies with a uniformly large basin of attraction independent of the size of the population and that those strategies forgive defections and, assuming that they are symmetric, they cooperate.


• In The Democracy Effect: a weights-based identification strategy with Andrew Foster and Kenju Kamei, we provide a new methodology to measure the direct effect of democracy.


• In The Determinants of Efficient Behavior in Coordination Games with Guillaume Fréchette and Jeongbin Kim, We study the determinants of efficient behavior in stag hunt games.

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